Should patents be issued on business ideas that are implemented using conventional software and hardware techniques? The U.S. ...

With their savings gone, trial courts are looking at an all-too-familiar playbook since it appears they're not going to get th...

A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Hudson Pacific Properties Inc. Los Angeles ...

Justice Marvin Baxter's announcement came as a surprise, and his departure has the potential to ideologically transform the st...

In a recent U.S. high court ruling, Justice Thomas noted that there were two threats constituting cause for concern under an O...

Gov. Jerry Brown announced the appointment of 15 new judges Wednesday, including eight for Los Angeles County Superior Court. ...

Valeant Pharmaceuticals took its roughly $51 billion unsolicited buyout offer directly to Allergan's shareholders on Wednesday...

The 2nd District Court of Appeal wrote in a lengthy, published opinion Wednesday that a jury should not have inflated lawyer H...

Upon exiting Dodger Stadium, Bryan M. Stow was yelling with his arms raised, according to testimony Wednesday from one of the ...

Plaintiffs claim they were trafficked from Indonesia to labor without pay for a Los Angeles couple, according to a lawsuit fil...

A superior court judge voiced skepticism Thursday that an unlicensed lender could levy high interest rates on more than $15 mi...

Los Angeles law firm Taylor & Ring reached the deal this week with the Moraga School District, which agreed to pay $7 mill...

The short answer: yes. By Scott L. Nelson ...

Osborne Clarke in Palo Alto staffs no U.S. attorneys, but its strong referral network and expertise in Europe has brought it h...

The U.S. Supreme Court's eternal goat, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, wasn't the only circuit to suffer significant re...

A roundup of recent real estate activity and the lawyers involved.

From the recent wave of mergers that have created gargantuan 4,000-lawyer international firms has emerged what some are callin...

Until recently, most high-tech companies have succeeded in defeating product liability claims in the traditional tort world. B...

The Federal Aviation Administration is ever so slowly putting together regulations for commercial drone use. By Doug Griffith ...

Plaintiffs' lawyers could still nab $1.2 million in attorney fees in their lawsuit that accuses the State Bar of unfairly with...

Revelations about delayed benefits for veterans seeking treatment through the Department of Veterans Affairs have garnered nat...

A San Francisco federal judge Tuesday refused to certify a nationwide class of online video watchers claiming Hulu LLC shared ...

Salmon were the victors in a court of appeal decision Thursday that pitted their livelihood against the rights of wine grape g...

Scott A. McPhee is defecting from Morrison & Foerster LLP to join Latham & Watkins LLP as a partner in the firm's fina...

A group of defendants led by Yahoo Inc. secured a stipulated judgment of noninfringement against a subsidiary of Acacia Resear...

Insurance industry representatives found themselves speaking alongside the Consumer Attorneys of California in advocating tha...

New ethics guidelines set to go into next month governing California arbitrators has drawn fire both from leading dispute reso...

Commissioner George Berenson has learned to change courtrooms and assignments with ease.

Across the country, a small but growing corps of law faculty are using the technique or creating courses that include instruct...